{"id":2117,"date":"2011-07-19T17:22:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T15:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:22:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T15:22:19","slug":"tour-de-luxembourg-part-2-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/19\/tour-de-luxembourg-part-2-of-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Luxembourg: Part 2 of 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tour de France is reaching its climax, so naturally the Bugle turns its attentions to the Tour of Luxembourg of early June 2011. (Plus, yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Europe\/2011\/0718\/A-day-off-at-the-Tour-de-France-Not-exactly-restful\">rest day<\/a> gave me some extra time to catch up.) <a href=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/07\/tour-de-luxembourg-part-1-of-2\/\">Part One<\/a> took you to the opening time-trial in Luxembourg-Ville (the Prologue), and from the beginning of Stage 1 in the west of the country to the end in the south-east. Part Two will tell the story visually, so check your computer&#8217;s volume and click along! <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We propose <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/wc5LUo0SXWM?hd=1\">two<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/WbbEw7JFFO4?hd=1\">videos<\/a> to review our experience of those two days. You may want to watch each video in HD by clicking on the YouTube button and then the full screen button (four arrows pointing outward).<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wc5LUo0SXWM?rel=0&amp;hd=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WbbEw7JFFO4?rel=0&amp;hd=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The photosets have detailed descriptions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willbakker\/sets\/72157626763131623\/\">Part One<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willbakker\/sets\/72157626766957505\/\">Part Two<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After our comprehensive coverage of the first three days (Prologue, Stage One and Stage Two), we had our own rest day for Stage Three. (It was far up in the north, a beautiful area, but we were feeling quite lazy that morning.) It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leopardtrek.lu\/news\/defense-yellow-continues-luxembourg\">sounds like<\/a> this stage was a lot like the previous ones: a Leopard TREK rider in yellow and the rest of the team with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willbakker\/5800359617\/in\/set-72157626766957505\/\">an iron grip<\/a> on the peloton. <\/p>\n<p>The final day of racing finished in Luxembourg-Ville, practically on our doorstep. Take <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/s19XvymFD2c?hd=1\">a look<\/a>:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s19XvymFD2c?rel=0&amp;hd=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willbakker\/sets\/72157627106809617\/\">the requisite photoset<\/a> is ready for your perusal, too.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Voil\u00e0!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tour de France is reaching its climax, so naturally the Bugle turns its attentions to the Tour of Luxembourg of early June 2011. (Plus, yesterday&#8217;s rest day gave me some extra time to catch up.) Part One took you to the opening time-trial in Luxembourg-Ville (the Prologue), and from the beginning of Stage 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,620,201,4,476],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}